Felix Magowan: Why He Bought Triathlete Magazine from Ironman - Triathlon Taren Podcast

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Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Felix Magowan is a partner at Pocket Ventures, which is best known to triathletes as the company that has recently purchased Triathlete Magazine, Velonews, Velopress, and Women's Running from World Triathlon Corporation (the company that runs Ironman). What's most interesting about this is that in the 1980s Felix was one of the original founders of Inside Communications which owned and operated Inside Cycling, Inside Triathlon, and Triathlete Magazine. In this interview Triathlon Taren and Felix talk shop about why Felix and his team at Pocket Outdoor Media would decide to come out of retirement in the triathlon and endurance sports world at a time when media businesses are fighting massive headwinds in the industry. Topics discusses in this podcast with Felix Magowan: Triathlete Magazine Velonews Velopress Spacenews

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is brought to you by for the first time, two sponsors. We are literally growing by
0:07.7	dozens of dollars a day. Amazing. This is fantastic. And we should preface these sponsorship bits by saying
0:14.7	that we only accept sponsors on the podcast if they have a product that we really support, believe in, and or use if possible.
0:23.7	Unfortunately, we can't use the first sponsor's product, Health IQ, because they are U.S. life insurance and we are Canadians.
0:32.4	But it's still amazing because it's something that you used to rant and rave about all the time when you were
0:38.2	an investment advisor, the fact that healthy people paid more for life insurance than unhealthy
0:42.7	people, but no more.
0:44.0	Yes, health IQ has set up their company in such a way that triathletes, swimmers, cyclists,
0:50.3	runners, vegans, people who take care of themselves can get as much as a 25% savings on their
0:56.6	life insurance, which really just makes sense. That's the way that it should be. Right. Yes,
1:02.6	that was one of the rantey and ravey things because guys like me, I had to pay just as much as
1:07.7	the burger and fries never getting off the couch guy. Yes, yes, not ideal.
1:13.5	If you want to learn more about health IQ, go to health IQ.com forward slash triathlon Terran.
1:19.6	They've bundled up all of the triathlete specific information there. Or if you end up calling in or just
1:25.3	going to the website on your own, use the code triathlon
1:28.2	Terran. It's not going to save you any money because health IQ is already.
1:32.1	Right.
1:32.2	You're saving you the money. Ideally saving you money. But let's health IQ know that you came from us
1:37.5	and helps support the show. And our other sponsor, welcome to the show for Four Sigmaic and their mushroom coffees slash drinks.
1:46.7	That's right. This is one that I actually use. I started using For Sigmaicmatic in early 2017 because I was finding that just the three cups of coffee that I have a day was enough to kind of get me addicted.
1:57.9	Like I was feeling like I craved it even though I didn't really want it.
2:01.2	And it didn't taste good. And yeah, by the end of it, like you get that acid feeling and an energy
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